Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1918 — Page 1

Volume XVI. Number 96.

A HEAVY BLOW DEALT BY AMERICANS

MANY CASUALTIES ARE INFLICTEDJN ENEMY GROUND LOST IN TOUL SECTOR HAS REEN RE TAKEN BY AMERICANS—GERMANS ARE AGAIN BOMBARDING AMIENS, • (United Press Service) Washington. I). ('., April 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) — \merican forces in the battle of Seichepiey, while suffering the heaviest losses of their fighting to date, inflicted casualties numbering close to 500 on the Germans, General Pershing reported to the war department today. I London. April 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Bombardment of Amiens has been heavily renewed, according to a dispatch today from the British front Three additional hits have been made on the famous Amiens Cathedral.

(ITnited Press Service) London. April 22—" We improved our position* during the night in the Villers-Bretonneux (ten miles east of Amiens), Albert and Bobecq sectors," F'eld Marshal Haig reported today. South and north of Lens (midway between Picardy and Flanders battle , fronts) we conducted a number of ( successful raids, capturing prisoners , and much guns. “In different sector* there was con- ( siderable reciprocal artillery fighting. The enemy shelling was chiefly astride the Somme and the Anere. in the Lens sector, and in the neighborhood of Festubart and Nieppe forest.” ( "A strong local attack was made by the enemy last night in the neighborhood of Mesnil (four miles north ofp Albert) accompanied by heavy shell-j ing. After sharp fighting during the I course of the enemy captured | an advanced position, the attack was I completely repulsed." With the American Army in Lorraine, April 21 — (Night)—American j { troops attacked the Germans northwest of Toul this morning, following , a heavy barrage, retaking all the positions lost in Saturday's strategic re- , treat. The ground was covered with . enemy dead, showing the heavy cost ‘ of their assault. Latest reports show that the Amer- | icans, although outnumbered, valiant- )( ly withstood the onslaught of three . waves of storm troops. A German < barrage behind their own troops < forced their advancing infantry across ( No Man’s Land into the attack. Americans say the Germans were 'dope crazed,” and more like wild men , and beasts than humans, singing and, yelling as they advanced. | In the artllery wrecked villages in the rear, Red Cross, Salvation Army and canteen workers bravely stuck, helping the wounded and serving coffee to exhausted soldiers. Curing Saturday’s attack, many, American* fought In gas masks for, eight hours. The officer ordered the ( men to load up with grenades and "stick.’ Then he took up a rifle him-j self and emptied it into the advancing enemy, afterward joining the men in hurling grenades. A dispatch bearer, sent from the front could not see through hi* mask. He ripped it off, ran through three barrages and delivered the message. Returning, he fell unconscious. His first words, on recovering consciousness were: ’■l’m not yellow, am I doc? Did ij deliver the message? I' ll 9° bac I now.” .' In a village in No Man’s Land. (Schicheprey?) German* and Ameri-| can* were mixed up everywhere. e Yankees tried to force the boches into the open, declaring. We c; lick ’em when they come out of their sewers.” . „ Machine gunner* didn’t know w to give up. Setting their guns m the street* they mowed down the ermans. One officer told in a breaking voice of finding two machine gunners with semi-circle, of dead Germans around them. When German aviators soured Are of the mitrailleuse* Into the

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American infantry machine gunner* refused to obey the vacation order and stuck under fire until they had downed the German places Sheer bravery enabled rectification of the American lines. Telephone linemen worked in the open amidst bursting shells, smoking and joking. Army ambulance men went clear into No Man’s Land, gathering up the wounded. One driver, who had been at Verdun during the most desperate enemy assaults there, said the shelling was worse than any he had ever seen at Verdun. Paris. April 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Karl Bleistreu. a German military writer in the Neueuropa, declares the German losses on the west front, between August 1914 and August 1917, totalled 2.604,9G1 in killed aid prisoners. On the east front, he said the total killed and prisoners were 1,484,550. German writers estimate the German losses between August, 1917, and January 31, 1918, as 367,450 killed and taken prisoners, on “both fronts." German writers estimate the grand total of German killed and prisoners, adding those dying of illness and wounds, and the casualties in colonial and naval fighting, at 3,000.000. London, April 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer presented a record breaking budget in the house of commons this afternoon. The chancellor estimated the vote of credit for the coming year would total $12,750,000.000. (United Press Service) A resumption of the Picardy drive j by Hindenburg, through an assault between the Somme and the Scarpe rivers, appears imminent. A United Press dispatch from the French front says "There are numerous indications that the Germans are preparing for a fresh drive between i Amiens and Arras.' I This, the correspondent declares, is in line with the enemy strategy of {-maintaining their temporary abandoned drives in a condition permitting immediate resumption of offensive." The front between the Somme and the Scarpe has been comparatively the quietest of any of the sectors n the two big fighting fronts of the west front offensive for several weeks.. The Flanders battlefield, with the exception of brief lulls, has been the scene of almost continued fighting since the I drive started there April 9.. On the I Picardy front, below the Somme, the 'French have made several successful I local attack, east of Amiens and the I sector from Mont Didier eastward has seen innumerable raids and artillery engagements. Hate, in his official report today, described a strong enemy attack in the , neighborhood of Mesnil. which is lo 'cated on the Amiens-Arras front, about eleven miles north of the Somme. ’> There are also indications that Hai? 'anticipated an effort by Hindenburj ,to consolidate the two b l 6 batti. fronts by an attack between th. . Scane and the Laßassee canal. Hi s — onT*age Two) 4

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, April 22, 1918.

HEAR FOOD CRY Fact of Great War is .lust Beginning to Penetrate TO DENSE FASTNESS Os Distance and Ignorance —A Lamentable Situation. A woman living in the Kentucky mountains told a social worker recently. ”1 hear there is an awful sued going on somewhere. Is it true?" The fact that there is a war is only just beginning to penetrate those mountain fastnesses. | A woman in one of the rich agricultural districts of an eastern state is still serving meat every day in the week and white bread every meal. Since the ‘‘fifty-fifty” order in buying flour was issued, she was heard to remark. “My pantry shelf is getting loaded down with that breakfast food stuff that I have to buy nowadays and the only way I can get rid of it is to feed it to the chickens.” The fact of war has not yet penetrated her fastness. There are still too many fastnesses where the seriousness of the food problem has not yet seemed to pene trate. They are found in our big cities and in our richest agricultural valleys just as often as in the moun tains of Kentucky The ignorance of the poor Kentucky woman is .pitiful and forgiveable, but the indifference of the other woman is lamentable and unpardonable. U:t less the conservation cry is heard and heeded by all women, the food problem of America will not be solved. HAPPILY MARRIED Lester Patterson and Miss Marie Duncan Craig Married AT NOON SATURDAY Martin Fuelling and Miss Verna Darkless Take Vows. At high noon Saturday at the Metho disk church was solemnized the wedding of Lester Patterson and Miss Marie Duncan Craig, the Tlev. F. F. Thornburg officiating. The ring ceremony was employed. Attending the couple were the groom’s brother and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Anthorty Craig. The bride was unusually pretty in a frock of gray crepe de chine with white georgette crepe collar She wore a girdle bouquet of lovely pink roses the gift of the groom Her attendant was gowned in a brown silk dress and wore pink roses, whole the groom who was attired in a blue suit wore a white carnation as a buttonaire. Following the ceremony a dinner was served at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Craig on Eighth street. The wedding cake which was in pure white was surmount ed by a large white wedding bell and the appointments of the table were * very pretty in detail. Besides the parlents of the bride, and the members of the bridal party mentioned before, others at the dinner were the groom’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. Charles Patterson, Rev. F. F. Thornburg, Miss Florence Craig, Chester Ix>tt, Eulalia Wemhoff and Mrs. George Wemhoff. At four o’clock the wedding couple left by automobile for a visit in the I southern part of the state after which I they will be at home with the groom't parents on th farm southwest of the 'city. . I Both bride and groom are fine young ■ people. The bride has resided here i'for some time, Mr. Craig befog em (Continued on Page Four)

+++++++ + + + + + + 4 4 LIBERTY BOND SALES. 4 I* "* 4 Quota Sold 4 4 Union ........$ 20.250 $ 1fi,600 4 4 Root 34.000 25.800 4 4 Preble 26.250 13.600 4 4 Kirkland 22,600 14,950 4 4 Washington .. 27,600 12,450 4 + St. Mary's. No. 10,900 200 4 4 St. Mary's, So. 9.250 4,600 4 4 Blue Creek ... 20,600 21.100 4 4 Monroe, North 21.200 12,150 4 4 Monroe, Middle 17.300 4,550 4 4 Monroe, Berne 35,800 23,400 4 4 French 22.200 3,150 4 4 Hartford 26,200 16,200 4 4 Wabash 31,000 23,500 4 4 Jefferson 19,450 14.000 4 4 Decatur. 4 4 First Ward A. 9,200 20,550 4 4 First Ward B. 9.200 5,800 4 4 Second Ward A 9,300 35,850 4 4 Second Ward B 9,300 8.000 4 4 Third Ward A. 9,200 18,200 4 4 Third Ward B. 9,200 12,350 4 4 » + 4 Total $400,000 $307,300 4 4 The women’s organization hrs 4 4 secured $85,550 of this amount. 4 444*4444444444 WEATHER IS WARM Glen Neptune Writes Fine Letter from France— Secretary Baker AND GEN. PERSHING There on Inspection—Glen Spent Five Months Near the Firing Line. Another interesting letter from Glen Neptune, in E’rance. was received by his father, Dr. J. Q. Neptune: Is-sin-Tille, France, March 20. 1918 Dear Dad: I know 1 haven't written as often as 1 should lately but I have really been so busy dad and have very little time to myself. Have a pretty good job now don't have much running around to do and my feet are not bothering me much. Was in the hospital about seven weeks but got no relief. Beieve me dad. 1 have had some tough luck. Have had three good jobs and '.tad to give them up on account of my feet. The last job I had I was put m chaige of a ware-house and was store keeper. Would have been made a sergeant if I could have kept the job but had to give it up for there was oo much running around to it. Well our summer is almost here and It sure feels good to see the old sun shining again. It is really hot today ind all of us fellows here in the office have our sleeves rolled up and our shirt collars open. Secretary Baker and General Persuing with his staff were here three days ago on an inspection tour. We sure have a wonderful place here. It is the largest base the United States has ,n France. There are about two thousand German prisoners here. I wouldnot be surprised to see the Bodies try and come over here in their airplanes soon. Just got news that one of the trenches our boys held on the western front was wiped out. They must have got the range and did sure blow things up. It was one of the places we ship supplies to every day. This place is pretty far back from the lines but the first permanent camp I was in for about 5 months was right behind the lines and it rather seems dull here after hearing such a rumble from the big guns. Well, I suppose you have receivet my other letter by this time and know that my old pal Joss is now a secont lieutenant. He is still located her< with me but 1 don’t get the chance t< see him much. Have met several fel lows from Celina, 0., who know Cousti ■ Jim Johnson and Pet Bowman, also ‘ met a fellow who knew Aunt Elsli ' Hays in Rockford. O. 1 1 sure was pleased to get all th' > nice things you and everybody els< ‘ sent me and wish you would than! them for me for I haven’t time t< ; write them all. Just got a letter fron * Gregg and he also sent me two boxes -I There are three fellows stickim (Continued on Page Two)

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■ PRINTING BALLOTS 4 | * Primary Ballots Are Being Printed Today at This * Office. F ► ABSENTEES CAN VOTE F F ► Soldiers Will Vote at Pris mary Under New Law ► Must Apply. I" The board of election commissioners, composed of Clerk Will Hammel!, Harry Fritzinger and O. L. Vance ■ were supervising the job of printing , the Democratic and Republican bal- * lots at this office today. 1 The ballots are being printed earlier this year for the reason that under the I, new primary election law absent volers. including the soldier boys in this : | county, can vote, thus necessitating I, the getting out of the ballots several days ahead in order that the county [clerk may mail a blank ballot to the absentees who make application io vote at the coming primary. In order - that a voter might qualify himself to vote If he be out of the city or coumy in which he lives on election day, he must first make application through the clerk’s office, fill out the application, have it sworn to, return same and ; then the ballot of the party- which he asks for will be mailed to him. This must be checked in the regular manI ner and then returned to the county clerk who will place the ballot in the hands of the judge or inspector in the precinct in which the absent voter belongs. In all, about. 7,500 ballots will be i printed and the job will take a couple . of days, it being a very tedious one. 1 Where there are more than four candidates for the same office the names 1 ; of respective candidates must be 1 rotated. WFFK’S CANVASS ' Boy Scouts Will Start Out on Campaign to Secure Liberty Bonds. WEEK OF APRIL 27TH — I ' President Wilson Endorses Plan—Will be Gleaners After Reaper. The full strength of the Boy Scouts ‘ of America, numbering nearly 400.000 with their adult leaders, has been • called out by President Wilson to j i conduct a nation wide intensive Lib- ' erty Loan campaign. i This campaign will be a “clean-up" i house-to-house canvass, just before - the close of the general campaign. The Scout campaign will open on < Saturday, April 27, thus making it ■ possible to have two Saturdays within the period of the Boy Scout campaign. i “Gleaners After the Reapers” ~ The Scouts wil make sure that no s one is overlooked and will also give , p subscribers an opportunity to take s Scouts of America, as a distinctive e just a little bit more. The Boy ~ Scouts of America, as a dintsinctive e service to their country, will work as e "gleaners after the reapers.’ The e primary motive of this Boy Scout campaign is to serve our country and , help win the war. ' The plan of having the Boy Scouts’ w d campaign at the end of the regular " campaign in a house-to-house canvass ° is the particular service that has ° been assigned to the Boy Scouts of !1 ' America by the United States treas!n ury department. 1 President Wilson Calls the Scouts. Ie President Wilson’s letter is as follows: 10 "The White House. Washington, se “March 14, 1918. ik “My Dear Mr. Livingstone: to "Will you again muster the full m strength of the Boy Scouts of Ameris. ca for co-operation with the treasury ig department in securing subscriptions ~ ~ (Continued on Page Two)

$ 444444444444 + 4 4 LOYAL SECTION MEN. + + Councilman John Logan Sat +i 4 unlay evening turned in sub 4 ' 4 scriptions for Third Liberty + 4 Loan bonds tor SBSO, every cent + ' 4 of which was from men engaged + 4 as section hands for the G. R. & 4 41. railroad. It’s a record worth 4 4 considering and the fad that + : + these men who work for wages 4 4 are taking such amounts should 4 4 make some of those who can bet + . + ter afford it think whether or not 4 + they are really patriotic. 4 +++++ *++ + + + l- + +

TOOK OWN LIFE Thurman Huey, Former Resident of Near Bryant COMMITED SUICIDE By Shooting—Had Been Estranged from His Wife. The body of Thurman Huey, 39. former resident of near Bryant was taken there for burial, following his 1 death by suicide at Dunkirk. A Dun- ' kirk dispatch to the Portland Sun' 11 says: "Thurman Huey, 39, died here F.-i.' day morning of revolver wounds self-| inflicted. Huey had been estranged ’ from his wife for two months and,, 1 within the last week, had returned 1 from a western trip through Colorado. 1 A son interceded and brought Huey * here from Portland Thursday night 1 ;and it was thought a reconciliation* ’ had been effected. Early Friday morn-| * i ing he produced a gun and saying 1 • 1 I “good-bye" to the family, sent a bullet .into his heart. Coroner Jones was * called and the investigation showed f that the dead man had made several a other attempts to end his life. “Two letters were found on his per- - son. one addressed to his four ehil- ' dren and the other for publication. The latter letter gave the name of n man res|>onsible for the act of el:destruction and was written indicating that he had planned to kill his •' wife before he committed suicide. v “Huey formerly lived near Bryant. R and has a half-brother and half-si.- ► ler. Daniel Curtz and Mrs. Emma a ' Jack living near Geneva. Four ehil- c dren survive. The body was taken to a Bryant for burial’” 1’

| TODAY’S WORLD NEWS FLASHES Los Angeles. Cal., April 22—Four are known to be dead, the town of San Jacinto, and Hemet, eighty miles southeast of Los Angeles, are practically in I ruins, and a score of people slightly injured today as the result of the earthquake which wrecked southern California Sunday afternoon. Property damage is estimated at one-half million dollars. Los Angeles, Cal., April 22—Business sections of the towns of Hemet and San Jacinto, eighty miles east and south of Los Angeles, were in ruins today as the result of a severe earthquake which struck southern California at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. The shock was felt throughout southern California but was ■ most severe in the inland towns near Riverside. Several were injured at Hemet and San Jacinto by falling glass and bricks, but none seriously. More than twenty business buildings in Hemet were completely wrecked. At San Jacinto fifteen buildings and many brick residences crumbled. Many large plate glass windows in downtown Los Angeles were shattered and cracks ap- ' peared in the walls of a number of buildings. Telephone messages from [those towns early today fixed the total damage at approximately $500,000. 1 practically all of which resulted from the destruction of business buildings. The shock also was felt in western Arizona, though no damage was reported . there. Three men were entombed in a shallow magnesite mine near Hemet . when the shaft caved in. They were rached by working parties late yes- > terday. I Washington. D. C„ April 22—Seventy-two casualties announced by the war department today showed ten kilted In action, five dead of wounds, four of • diseases, one of accident, two from other causes, forty-two wounded slightly, r seven severely wounded and one previously reported missing now reported s killed. f New York. N. Y„ April 22-A dynamite bomb weighing twenty-five . pounds was found today in the entrance of the Life Publishing company building, West 31st street. The police are working on the theory that it was to be used to blow up the Pennsylvania tube, three blocks away. Inspector . pf Combustibles Eagen says it is the most powerful explosive machine he has ever seen. It contained five pounds of dynamite and was built to explode by concussion or a fuse. Washington, D. C„ April 22—President Wilson today expressed strong 1 opposition to Senator Chamberlain’s bill providing for court martial trial of -those arrested for treasonable utterances and acts. In a letter to Senator ,' Chamberlain, the president declared such legislation would be unconstitu--3 tional and would put the United States “on a level with the people whom we ’ are fighting."

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MEN ARE WANTED 'Voluntary Induction Service is Now Opened to Men in Draft. SEVENTY-TWO TRADES Can be Selected—The Men ! Should File With Local Miltary Board. The voluntary induction phase of the selective service is again opened to men within the Graft. General Pershing is in need of 12,000 skilled men and it is the desire of Provost Marshal General Crowder to induct them voluntary. Seventy-two diffetent branches or profession are opened to registrants and in a good many . cases the men who volunteer and are accepted will be given a training course in this country before they are sent over there to join the Pershing forces. This special service is for men m th" draft only and the offer is open ■ only to April 27th. You must be : physically fit for general military service in order to be accepted Registrants who are interested should til" their name with Chief Clerk E. it. Adams of the local military board and when the time or necessity arises they will lie called by the war department. The list of trades includes everything from A to Z. such as alr-bral.e inspectors, auto mechanics, boiler makers, breakmen, cooks, clerks, commissary storekeepers. cranemen, draftsmen, engineers, floor hands, foremen of construction, gunsmiths, nisi lectors. general mechanics, motorcyclists, painters. photographers, plumbers and pipe fitters, saddlers or harness makers, stenographers, tailors teamsters, telephone and telegraph operators. wagon makers, wireless operators. yardmasters or switchmen, etc. This special offer will expire Aptil 27th. See your local board today if you are interested. You will be called later on. o WERE MARRIED SATURDAY Mr. Frank H. Hammond and Mirs Ardina Smith, of Scottville, Mich , were married at the home of the groom’s brother. Fred Hammond, - n South First street Saturday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock. Rev. W. S. Mills offi elating. There were no attendants, and they will make their home temporarily in Decatur.